The Dance Theatre of Harlem is a well known multicultural and ethnic ballet company. Ending their tour, Stony Brook University hosted one of their performances at the Staller Center on Sunday, May 7th. This tour in particular was special, it being Virginia Johnson’s last tour as artistic director for the company. Artistic director Johnson took over from the original founder, Arthur Mitchell in 2013.
Nobility Night Review By: The Rewriting “Manhood. Achievement. Leadership. Integrity. Knowledge.” These words embody what the brotherhood of the MALIK Fraternity, Inc. represents. The MALIK brothers serve the Black and Latinx community while also standing against all forms of injustice. On Saturday November 5th, students were dressed in their best attire to attend the MALIK Fraternity’s annual Nobility Night. The […]
By Anthoni Haynes So let’s talk about the 44th Annual Black Womyn’s Association that took place on Saturday, April 23 in the SAC Ballroom. Lord was it serving UNITY love a Black Woman from infinity to infinity from the designs to the performances to the music and the host. I was looking forward to the show and boy was I not disappointed. […]
By Anthoni Haynes This past weekend I re-watched the documentary, Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle. The documentary was a four-part mini-series that covers the Reverend Jim Jones, his cult the Peoples’ Temple and the tragedy that is known as the Jonestown Massacre, a mass murder suicide which left over 918 people dead at the temple’s remote settlement in the rainforest […]
By Esther Alatishe The long-yet-somehow-fast year of 2021 brought with it many works of film and TV that reflected some very real aspects of life: the mundane, the chaotic, the ridiculous, the ironic, the disappointing, the ambiguous, and the happy. One of those works was the first season of the Amazon Prime TV show Harlem. Don’t get me wrong– the […]
By Maia Vines Hulu’s new show, Woke, tells the story of Keef Knight, a black cartoonist living in the San Francisco-Bay Area who battles with issues of racial injustices and stereotypes that make up his everyday life. After an incident in which he is racially profiled and mistaken for a mugger, Keef, played by Lamorne Morris, has an awakening, eventually […]
By Fernando Acevedo “Ay, ay, ay, ay Canta y no llores Porque cantando se alegran Cielito lindo, los corazones” Maybe you recognize these lyrics or have heard it before. These lyrics are from the famous Mexican song “Cielito Lindo,” originally by Quirino Mendoza y Cortés. The song has become a trademark for Mexico as it has gained huge popularity since […]
By Jorge Jaquez If you met your doppelgänger, would you become their best friend? What would you do if they tried to kill you and replace you? Jordan Peele, the director of “Get Out,” which won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, has delivered an even more formidable film. Peele, the first African-American to win the achievement, also directed “Us,” […]
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